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I Desire Mercy Not Sacrifice
Experiencing the mercy of God in our lives
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Looking to Jesus for help now and hope in the future
Why Suffering?
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But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out ...read more
You dont have to go for a home run in every sentence. It will exhaust you and the reader. I always tell my students that every paragraph needs an ox-like sentence that does the work. It should be simple and short. Dont hide or disguise ...read more
Writing books is the closest men ever come ...read more
"Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far to write twaddle or ...read more
"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing thats read by people who move their lips ...read more
I have always liked to let things simmer in my mind for a long time before ...read more
Tell a story Dont try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned ...read more
"You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a ...read more
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved ...read more
"In my own somewhat narrow experience, the value of writing seems to be in inverse proportion to the ease of writing. Whatever flows freely and ...read more
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they ...read more
"The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything ...read more
"Writing, like life itself, is a voyage ...read more
"Learn to write. Never mind the damn statistics. If you like ...read more
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It is like ...read more
My vocabulary dwells deep in my mind and needs paper to wriggle out into the physical zone. Spontaneous eloquence seems to me a miracle. I have ...read more
"To write is to descend, to excavate, to ...read more
A good title should be like a good metaphor: it should intrigue without being ...read more
A good novel is possible only after one has ...read more
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